SUKKUR: Police have arrested a female tutor, her sister and three brothers on charges of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl and issuing threats to her father at their residence in Rohri taluka on Tuesday evening.

The victim’s father stated in an FIR that on July 30 he dropped his child at about 5:00 pm at the suspects’ home where the main suspect ran a tuition centre in the locality. When he went to pick his daughter at 6:30 pm he found her in a disheveled condition with blood stains on her clothes. He immediately called people of the locality to bear witness to his daughter’s condition, he said.

When he and the locality people knocked at the door of the tuition centre, the two sisters, their brothers and two unknown youths came out. The unknown suspects ran away while the family started threatening them of dire consequences, he said.

He said that when her daughter’s condition stabilised they took her to the area’s police station where police registered a case against the suspects and sent them to taluka hospital with a letter for having medical examination of the child.

Police officials said that they had lodged the FIR on a complaint filed by the victim’s father against the female tutor, her sister and three brothers and two unknown suspects.

They said that they had arrested all the suspects except the unknown youths, who had disappeared since.

They had charged the suspects under Sections 375-V, 376-B, 506/2. Police investigators were busy gathering evidence, including CCTV cameras’ footages, in order to conduct a thorough investigation of the case.

Police to check CCTV footage

SSP Amjad Ali Shaikh said that he was personally monitoring the case. When he came to know about the victim’s condition, he had the young girl shifted from the taluka hospital to a private hospital to have a necessary surgery of the victim.

He said that police would take further legal action against the suspects on the basis of the victim’s medical report.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2024